Impact of phages on soil bacterial communities and nitrogen availability under different assembly scenarios.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Bacteriophages, the viruses infecting bacteria, are biological entities that can control their host populations. The ecological relevance of phages for microbial systems has been widely explored in aquatic environments, but the current understanding of the role of phages in terrestrial ecosystems remains limited. Here, our objective was to quantify the extent to which phages drive the assembly and functioning of soil bacterial communities. We performed a reciprocal transplant experiment using natural and sterilized soil incubated with different combinations of two soil microbial communities, challenged against native and non-native phage suspensions as well as against a cocktail of phage isolates. We tested three different community assembly scenarios by adding phages: (

SUBMITTER: Braga LPP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7137350 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature